Put a fancy stock on a savage and it looks pretty decent from 25 yards away or so, but the closer you get the worse it gets, blocky, ugly barrel nut, goofy looking trigger (accutrigger), it just looks cheap to me. Sorry don't mean to hurt your feelings, tastes differ. If I wanted to change calibers, I'd use my encore, and do it in 2 minutes. I think the tikka is a better rifle out of the box. I don't have anything against them, they will easily do anything you want them to, and are accurate and usually a good bargain.